Gilbert & Sullivan: THE MIKADO.
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
Isidore Godfrey, conductor.

Victor 78rpm Album C-26 (02044 - 02065). Recorded June 3-22, 1936.
Digital transfer by F. Reeder


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Artist/Composer: D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Keywords: Gilbert and Sullivan; D'Oyly Carte; 78rpm; opera; operetta

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Gilbert & Sullivan: THE MIKADO

The Mikado - DARRELL FANCOURT
Nanki-Poo - DEREK OLDHAM
Ko-Ko - MARTYN GREEN
Pooh-Bah - SYDNEY GRANVILLE
Pish-Tush - LESLIE RANDS
Go-To - RADLEY FLYNN
Yum-Yum - BRENDA BENNETT
Pitti-Sing - MARJORIE EYRE
Peep-Bo - ELIZABETH NICKELL-LEAN
Katisha - JOSEPHINE CURTIS

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Isidore Godfrey, conductor

ACT I, Part 1
Overture
If you want to know who we are
A wandering minsterl, I
Our great Mikado, virtuos man
Young man, despair
Behold the Lord High Executioner!
As someday it may happen
Comes a train of little ladies
Three little maids from school are we
So please you, Sir, we much regret
Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
I am so proud

ACT I, Finale
With aspect stern
Your revels cease!
For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
The hour of gladness
Ye torrents roar!

ACT II
Braid the raven hair
The sun whose rays are all ablaze
Brightly dawns our wedding day
Here's a how-de-do
Mia Sama
From ev'ry kind of man
A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
The criminal cried
See how the fates
The flowers that bloom in the spring
Alone, and yet alive
On a tree by a river
There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
For he's gone and married Yum-Yum

Victor 78rpm Album C-26
Recorded June 3-22, 1936

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Reviewer: randyw41a - - May 3, 2012
Subject: Saw Topsy Turvy
After seeing the movie Topsy Turvy, made me want to hear the entire performance. Thanks for the upload...

Reviewer: heliograph - - October 4, 2010
Subject: Excellent transfer of an entertaining performance!
For a transfer from a 78, this recording is fantastic, and the performance is very entertaining.

Reviewer: Juan Schwarz - - December 21, 2009
Subject: Great!
Excellent recording of this lovely operetta, thanks a bunch for this.